Anyone made money from shares?

Yes, I have a Halifax share dealing account and also invest in containers through a broker.
My losses are currently 44% lower than gains.

Do your banks offer a sign up bonus for opening savings and/or checking accounts?

Meant to mention that I'm in the U.S. ..

Liaise, would you mind telling which Investment Trusts you have invested in?

yes. I did courses on TA, technical analysis, once had 3 computer graphs going at once. Doubled my husbands pension. I would say get the training first, be objective and decisive and never ever use it as a form of gambling. Women can make good share traders. I cut my teeth on ukx and indu and then went onto shares using TA, buying low and selling high. Not these days at my age, now responsably invested in gilts, which have all gone up 12%

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A very interesting discussion. mOnica gives some excellent advice.
I think the first thing to decide is whether you’re investing for profit or fun. If it’s the latter, follow mOnica’s advice. If it’s the former, you’re probably best off investing in an assortment of low cost tracker funds - a company called Vanguard do this well. If you’re with Hargreaves Lansdown, they have a number of cheap trackers run by Legal and General. Invest every month rather than in a lump sum to even out the impact of peaks and troughs on the market.

I don’t have enough disposable income to dabble in shares but I still read the thread. Boredom perhaps?

Anyway my surprise was ‘oh Gabriella54 returned a couple of months back ... then noticed her post was 2019 - as were all these posts. A resurrected thread!
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I’m trawling through now looking for another thread to grab my interest (still swerving politics till the NY though I’m having to sit on my hands as I read them!)
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